Video Editing

Convert MTS files with AVCHD to MP4 Format

Tool in ubuntu packages from https://handbrake.fr/

avconv -i C00006.MTS -c:a copy -c:v copy -y Canon-00006.MTS.mp4
ffprobe C00006.MTS.mp4

or

avconv -i ${1}.MTS -c:a copy -c:v copy ${1}.mp4

Tools seen with „dpkg -l“

libav-tools - Multimedia player, server, encoder and transcoder winff - graphical video and audio batch converter using ffmpeg or avconv

apt-get install gpac

http://gpac.wp.mines-telecom.fr/mp4box/

MP4Box -add input.h264:fps=29.97 -new output.mp4
/Applications/Free AVCHD to Mov.app/Contents/Resources/bin/com.geranium-soft.convert \
  -i /path/to/C00003.MTS \
  -map 0:0 -map 0:1 -c:a libfaac -vol 256 -b:a 128k -c:v copy \
  -sn -movflags faststart -threads 0 -pix_fmt yuv420p -y \
  /path/to/140710_C00003.mov

ffmpeg -i 140612_Canon-00000.MTS -t 60 -y \
  -vcodec copy -an 140612_Canon-00000.MTS.h264

ffmpeg -i 140612_Canon-00000.MTS -t 60 -y \
  -vn -acodec libfaac -ab 128k 140612_Canon-00000.MTS.aac

mp4box -add 140612_C00000.MTS.h264:fps=29.97 \
  -add 140612_C00000.MTS.aac \
  -new 140612_C00000.MTS.mp4

Adding: -r 29.97 option

Professor Sparkles gave me an advice to add „-r 29.97“. I tried that:

ffmpeg -i 140612_Canon-00001.MTS -t 60 -r 29.97 -y -vcodec copy -acodec libfaac -ab 128k

# see: http://video.stackexchange.com/questions/12156/how-can-i-convert-mts-file-avchd-to-mp4-by-ffmpeg-without-re-encoding-h264-v